Who this book is for

49 ESL Conversation Games & Activities - Jackie Bolen 2020


Who this book is for

This book will be helpful for a wide range of people. Perhaps you're an experienced teacher, but are stuck in a rut when it comes to lesson planning and feel like your teenage or adult students are not engaged in your English conversation classes. Or, maybe you're a very busy teacher with an extremely heavy teaching load and don't have a lot of time to plan lessons. Maybe you have closely followed a textbook for all your classes up to this point, but now have a class with no book and are trying to figure out what to do. You might also be an inexperienced teacher and have only been teaching for a few weeks or maybe you've never set foot in an ESL classroom before. This book is for you!

Perhaps you've been searching the Internet, trying to find some new ideas for ESL conversation games and activities, but are tired of wading through haystacks of useless and poor search returns to find the needle that you can actually use in your class. This book is perfect for you too.

My aim is that this will be an extremely practical resource to help make conversation classes interesting and fun, as well as make lesson planning quick and easy. I've written the book that I wish I had ten years ago when I first started teaching, and also one with content that I have been using all the years since then. Everything in this book has been tried in real-world classrooms and proven to work for myself as a teacher, and more importantly for improving the speaking skills of my English language learners.

This book will also be helpful if you find yourself thrown into a situation where you're given a new conversation class at the very last minute and there's nothing provided in the way of materials. This situation is all too common when working at a place like a cram school. The majority of the activities in this book are no-prep or low-prep and require almost nothing in the way of materials.

I hope this book is a resource that you'll refer back to again and again when planning ESL lessons and that it will make your teaching life easier.